Joyless

According to David Frum, the US Republican Party staged a convention which was their most listless and most joyless in twenty years, but Elizabeth Warren characterized that convention as the nastiest and most divisive in half a century.

Other Jewish subgroups often stereotype Ashkenazim as boring and joyless.

Without Joy, my life is joyless!

The Besht preached that the simple man, imbued with native faith and able to pray fervently and wholeheartedly with a sense of joy in his heart, was nearer and dearer to God than the learned but joyless formalist spending his whole life in the study of Talmud.

“It comes from chasing the fun,” says Regan. “A lot of the working-class cinema I grew up watching was so joyless. Endless trauma.”